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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> Hello, everybody.

Good day.

> instead of conceptualising a "branch" (as you would do with Mercurial,
> Bazaar, Subversion, or even CVS), you need to think about "commits
> reachable from a certain head (excluding commits reachable from some
> other head)".

I actually see that as a more flexible approach.  git is designed to be
distributed and that's what everyone loves about it.

For everything:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802573/difference-between-git-and-cvs
http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2011/06/09/git-lessons-learned/

Cheers,
konsolebox